US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on March 3 for "Integrated lithium niobate photonic millimeter-wave radar" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,240, issued on March 3, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Integrated lithium niobate photonic millimeter-wave radar" was invented by Cheng Wang (Hong Kong), Sha Zhu (Hong Kong), Yue Bun Edwin Pun (Hong Kong) and Yiwen Zhang (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centimeter-resolution integrated photonic millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar chip operating in the mmWave V band based on a 4-inch wafer-scale thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) technology is provided. The fabricated TFLN photonic mmWave integrated circuit has a first electro-optic modulator (EOM) capable of generating a broadband linear frequency modu...